Job 30:4

English Standard Version 2016

they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.

Cross References

Luke 15:16

And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

Amos 7:14

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 30:3

Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;

Job 30:5

They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.